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lowing sentence from Humphrey Clinker
does not prove anything except that the
misuse is an old one and not an Ameri-
canism, as sometimes charged: "Mr.
Dennison insisted upon Liddy's accept.
ing two bank notes of slOO each as
pocket money, and his lady gave her a
diamond necklace Of double that value"
It is said gallant American orator once
complimented an. audience composed
mainly fthe fair sex by saying, "The
ladies we're the last at the cross and the
first at the tomb" Would it not have
appeared rather ridiculous even to that
audience if the orator had gone on to say
that John and Peter only stayed with the
Master after the rest of the gentle
men had run away? How much more
ridiculous, however, was the case of our
orator than that of the English Curate
who, in the service of the churching of
women, prayed in the case of his high
born patrouess, ooh Lord, save this lady,
Thy servant" and had from the clerk
the response to match, "Who putteth her
ladyship's trust in Thee"
We all laugh at the absurdity of this
anecdote from New Orleans: "a lady
caused the arrest Of a policeman for call.
ing her woman The Judge, after
carefully deliberatiDg, decided that she
was woman, thus aggravating the
insult" But what if a reliable man
we're to aver that to his sure knowledge
"a certain church roll in the city of Nash
vile represents number Of men as hav-
ing "ladies," but not one as having a
"waife.' five remember Alright, it was
recently telegraphed to one of our city
papers that "Senator Lamar and lady"
had left for Atlanta; and in a list of
press excursionists we read "John Jones
and lady," "William Brown and wife,"
and stRichard Smith and ladies'"
Prof Schele.de We're in his "Ameri-
canisms, 'agtells some amusing anecdotes
about the misuse of the word gentle.
man.. "The Duke of SAKE Weimar was,
in Alabama, asked the question:: Are
you the man that wants to go to Selma 2
and upon asserting. was told: Then Pm
the gentleman that is going to drive
you.'n The landlord of the inn at
Corning, when asked BY Sir Charles
Lyell to find his coachman, called out in
his barroom: "Where is the gentleman
that brought this man here?" But the
dime museum lecturer perhaps capped
the climax when he referred to the Zulu
on exhibition as this gentleman.
To come directly to the point the
words man and woman in their proper
sense are in danger of dying out in some
parts of this country. People of culture
should come to the rescue. 1t might be
well, too, to start some schools and col.
.leges for young women, rather than for
young ladies, or, if that is not possible,
to let young women enter the colleges for
young men:-G. F. s., in the Southern
Christian Advocats.
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Whence Came the Potatog

1t may interest the readers of the Cul.
tivator to know that in his popular work,
entitled "The Andes and the Amazon,
the late Prof. Orion says the so called
"Irish" potato is native of the Andes
mountains. His statement is not origi.
nal. 1t was made by tie early Spanish
explorers and missionaries early in the
sixteenth century. The generally
accepted theory is that the potato was
introduced into Spain by the spaniards
from the neighborhood of Quito, aud
that from Spain it soon spread into the
Netherlands, Burgundy and Italy. How
it got into North America is not known,
but it is generally supposed to have been
introduced by the spaniards soon after
the conquest Of Mexico; for, so far asI
know, it has never been claimed thatE.it
was found in a wild state north of the 4
Isthmus of Panama. 1t was introduced
into Ireland for the first time in 1865,
from Virginia, by Sir John Hawkins, 9
slave trader and in confirmation of the
theory that it is indigenous to the An.
dean districts of South America, Imay
state that I have myself seen 1t growing
Wild in various parts of the interior of.
Columbia.
And yet the "Irish" potato has been
used as an article of food in China from
time immemorial. You see it every.
where from Canton to Pekin, and from
Shanghai to the most western limits of
the vast Empire; and never SAW .
Chinaman who would admit that it had
not originated in bis own country. In
fact, have been assured, by some Jesnit
missionaries who penetrated to the far
interior of the mountain districts, that it
is sometimes seen in wild state near
the borders of southern Thibet.
Why should it not have been indigo.
nous to both continents? The same con-
ditions of climate and soil that would
produce it in the mountains of tropical
and sub.tropical America would, it would
seem, produce it in Asia; and it is prob
able that the peoples of both continents
used it as an article of food ages before
they were aware of each others existence.
Next to rice, it is to-day the chief article
Of food in China and Japan, and in many
parts of Asia it is as much relied upon by
the common people as it is in Ireland or
in Ecuador William L. Scruggs in
Southern CuNivator for June.
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their intercourse and trading with the
world, until the last few years, having

their intercourse and trading with the
world, until the last few years, having
been carried on by peddler who was
himself leper. Occasionally healthy /
person marries into one of their families.
BE seldom gets the disease himself, but
the children were always liable to it, the
grandchildren and all the descendants.
1t is very remarkable how the disease
propagates itself, skipping from one gem
Grafton to another. All the children are
liable, but all seldom have it. In one
family in Lafourche two out of six chill.
dren had the leprosy, the others growing
up to manhood and womanhcod and
showing no taint whatever. Of these
two lepeys, one had family Of ten, only
one Of whom became leprous. Occasion
ally the disease leaps one or even two
generations, and the children or grand.
children of people in perfect health will
show the red spot in the face, against
which there is no remedy, and which
kills with certainty in from FIVE to ten
years. Nor is there any certainty when
the poison will show itself. Itmay come
early in childhood, or late in life, when
the victim has married aud brought up "a
family, every one of whom he knows is
in danger of this fatal malsdy.
The investigation in Lafourche was
not as successful as that in st. Martins.
vile, for this reason: the lepers, hearing
that committee of the board of health
was coming to inspect them, became very
much frightened. And the rumor was
circulated that the State intended to
arrest them and convey them to an island
in the Gulf-as was done many years ago,
during the Spanish rule. They refused,
therefore, to be examined, retired into the
swamp and DR.. Jones was able to see
only few of them, although he obtained
all the information he wanted on the,
subject from people living in their neigh
borhood. In his report to the Legislature
he suggested that something be done,
both for the relief Of these people and
for the protection of those who lived near
them, but no action was taken. The ST.
Martinsville affair and the demand Of
the press are likely to arouse the Legisla.
ture to the necessity for leper hospital.
If once established and these people can
be confined within it leprosy will be very
soon extinguished in Louisiana, as the
number of persons affected with it@iss
small.-New Orleans Letter to Chicago
7rrnes
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How Folks Live In Laurens.

The Oldest looking negro that / remem.
Der ever seeing, was old Phil Pitts. In
the first place, his body was bent almost
double, so that he was just, about the
same height when sitting down as when
standing up. Phils head was thorough
ly bald all over, an sleek as a turnip and
about as round. The only apology for
hair was narrow ring around the back
part of the head, about on level with
the ears, and was about as white as any
wool that ever grew anywhere. In addi-
ton to these evidences of age, the whole
neighborhood for many miles around was
stocked with Phil's descendents, all the
way down to the fifth generation. /
think it was in 1866 that received a
call to go and see Phil, as be was very
sick. went, though fully persuaded
that it was useless, as doubted not, that
in the regular course of nature, Phil's
time had come to die Of old age; but, in
spite Of my gloomy representations,
Phil, after few days, got better, and l
dismissed him. Only few days after
this, one of Phips numerous grand'sons
rode up to my gate and called for me:
"I'se come after you agin."
"What," said I, "bas old Phil got
worse :"
"No, sir, he's doin' mighty well now,
but his dsddy's sick" ~
ellis daddy"
eyes, sir, his daddy and nanny come
to see him t'other day, and de ole man
got SICK"
Well, went, still thinking that there
must be some mistake; but when I got
there soon found there was no mistake.
1t was indeed Phil's veritable father and
mother, VINO had walked several miles to
see their sick son. The old lady was
plump, bale and hearty, and said she
was one hundred and four years old.
She said she did not know how old her
husband (old Martin) vas, but he was a
few years older than herself. Old Mar.
tin himself was too bad off to question,
and in a few days passed away, leaving q
disconsolate widow and numerous
progeny to mourn his untimely taking
off. I am aware that this is too serious
matter to make q joke of, and I only tell
it because know there are great many
still living in the nighborhood Of Clinton
who will remember old Phil. In fact,
for all I know, he may be living yet.--Joc
Prince in Clinton Advertiser.
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saEHTIEMAN AND LADY.

NE have, doubtless, all over America
.;;ss way pplyings the titles Of gentleman
and lady that deserves the sharpest criti-
sciipm, 81 rather riidicule. Do you, gentle
ssm1asfried reader, ever receive cards
dressed to .tMr. a. B. and Lady 2"
Did yon ever see-a man and wife SO en-
s tsfsd s 81 81 q hotel register? Did you
.saser Is sthss, words printed on
Visiting an scatds2 This last we never.
I s :saW, but Prof sehele De We're init.
Eli mates ihat it is done sometimes. OF
scSurse g me we'll bred people know that those
sss MD write these things on invitations and
hotel registers are new at thu business
sgSs playing lady and gentleman. But it
sis wsii I'd. emphasize the fact that we
& maze a, The term too common. If people,
moreover, who write lady for wife only
E knes Is 5to what suspicion they subject
I thernsalgss from hotel keepers they
{ mould alaays write wife and not lady.
blaR English sentry made clear
sssdisijncti ion when he halted the wife of
Sfhss HeneraI Is hs'wasicrossing forbidden
] sseroi3ds The Generals orders, ma'am.
10 ona cad pass But Pm the Generals
lSd yod coaldn..t = pass, rna'am, if
syou Yere his -ifffe.. :.
soas IT sdoaanst help the 5piatter that
(asns Andrew Jackson said lin: a letter,
resent Lepnidas and lady my kind
s ssssll llasalions, and when yoli write 70 your
:fsti5sr, General Polk present my kind
"a Sfds q. him his lady and family"
s,sNISitKsri C enoagh; To justify the misuse
'i|; |of q sbe term that Ihhomas Carlyle wrote,
issi 81 miIl kind rememb bert ne tosMr.
IS rotor "a md BIS lady. Even the fol.
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"My little boy" said a gentleman
"you ought not to eat'those green apples.
They are not good for little boys"
"They hain't, eh ?" the boy replied, with
his mouth full. "Guess you don't know
much about 'em, mister. Three of these
apples'll keep me out Of school for a.
week"
- There is more ambition without
energy than energy without ambition.
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Drank an Ounce Of. Aconite.

NASHVILLE, May S0.-Iu East Nash
vile to.day John G. Bernal, an old man,
a painter, and very much addicted to
joking, went into drug store and going
back to where George Donelson, clerk,
was putting up medicine, said: "George,
Pm tired of living, what will kill me?"
Donelson, who was measuring aconite,
said: "Here's something that will kill
you mighty quick-aconite-if you just
drink enough" call right" said Ber-
nal; "get me something to drink it out
Of" Donelson poured out an ounce
graduate full and said: Gall right; here
she is" He did not notice Bernal, who
took it up and drank it. Donelson,
looking up moment later and seeing
the empty glass, said:
"My God |! Did you drink that?"
eyes," said Bernal.
."Then you'll die, said Donelson and
rushed off for help. Six or seven physi.
clans were summoned and did all they
could, but it was too late. Bernal said
he had mo idea that the glass contained
poison. His wife and two grown sons
were also called and were with him when
he died. Done!son is much depressed
and claims that ne knew the old man
was joking, but thought he would not
drink the poison after being told what it
was. Bernal was about go years old and
Thought we'll of by everybody.
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sss Jqssare surprised to learnt that some Of
ompton's . patrons ssat Double
sSpfings Fork Township. object TO- his
s#att tenaing the sInstitnte al illiamston,in
July They do not want their children
4 tos q 81 Be- ont t5i Of school during those two
Wesks 8 U whatsa pity that men are not
aiWags so asxiions about the education of
sstheirs ISL niidienii hat q pity that the
# impori iance of even two weeks is not.
g alassa ,piain to them! We have had
svdry. exalted opinion Of that section Of
anderson County. We really did not
know that there Was one person nthe
Fofk Nho was so short.aighted. Can
5: hey o,taee that from q business stand
4 ppint ii would Be money in their pockets
olet Compton goito that Institutes?
s Indeed, ii: would pay those people to pay
lis ejompton,ss board while at Nv Williams,
81. 500; 81 and not only that but to pay his
4 , travelling expenses to and from Williams.
81 tom DO they moi know that Teachers
institutes are not child,s plays9 Do
81 tlssy not know. that they are regular
training "a schools, in which teachers are.
81 ! made acquainted with the. very best
( msthods Of instruction : Does their
stI teacher. Know enough? I? Is MI. Compton
too old, o. too far gone, to learn some
thing mores Do his patrons Know that
S Eesliis Eli 'hu1gsfiiDg and thirsting for infor-
nation ID he: not begging for an oppor-
,s:sit g Unity 70 better prepare himself for the.
Il work be- undertakes Do his patrons
3 g not s know that Two weeks at ian Institute
such asit the one to be held at Williams.
N ION would be worth more to him as
s. S sacnet and moro to them and their
A Achiidrsn 81 than two years spent by him in;
ths best High School he could attend 2
40; Ibis fearful prejudice against some
:i fhine nov, this terrible dread Of getting
ss EssD1 ous Sc old swornruts. We do not hesi.
s. tia Is ssy that two weeks at w Williams-
ton aould make Mr.. Compton q better
easher by 100 per cent. We thi9ak
& surely tue good people of that neighbdf-
4 III hood have been misunderstood. Surely
s is they nonld not sub bjject themselves to such
Ecriticism and ridicule as such q course:
would bring upon them. ID justice to-
syour childfsn, fellow. citizens, to say
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= Protractetl drought is reported in
Minnesota ::and Dakota, and the grain is
suffering because of it.
Sam Jones refused to address q
gathering of newspaper men at Boston.
His work appears to be excessively among
the sinners.
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Address of Rev. j. B. Hawthorne, ID. d.,
In the Opera House, Atlanta, Ca, on
Sunday afternoon, 9Th inst.
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gHEiBR|s o,,lL. LVMN.
81 G CL.INKsCALEs EDITOR.


snparintandent Of Education, j. III.
p;c. IA decided 70 give us $4,000 Of
theP PeabodY II Fnnd TO aid us in Che Insti-
sstute xorE al Williamson. This appro.
% nS;ation it; & made on the condition that
ss s: "a IA institute be- open to ali the white
tsachers m Il ths State. II is the purpose
e 81 the & swoS @ commissioners to have lee
s. Ina ayefvsnieht from some scholar and
;ans,sii teacher. 81 Prof. f. q. Wood.
s. ;ss,s, & snartanbarg, will lecture on
S b.t IS Iaaa And how 10 read it.n DR..
ia .,r. Gser Superintendent Rice,
V Bannet. sEsu:, and Others will
sslsctnss sduriing the session. Don't fail
gsssfo. a,fs,a .l;eE Ina6 sute. and if you want
#fsS az 8 placs 8 board within the limits
s of fba towsIp. sI nsbettesar| write at once to
ssss son,s ana Don, 81 90 there without hav-
Ma ,aiia arrangements. Don't fail to go! |!
~
q letter from Prot. " o. q Lander,
caiessofsthe trnstees IN District No: 8, in
=.
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81 The Blacksmith is the yHors. kind Of
a bore. BE can make awhsel Tired.
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From the atlanta Constitutio,,, November O.,
1885
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lOI lulcIudl uCCuo. w ~ WOuo0io3 taOhj
that "a learned and distinguished jurist
should say, "Nine- -tenths Of the crimes
Of this country are trsceable to whisky"
Would the people Of this city vote to
license gambling house? No. They
would bury beneath their bitterest ex.
ecrations the man who should dare to in.
suit them with a proposition so base.
But to- day they are asked by Goddess
whisky ring to perpetuate a traffic, in
comparison with which gambling, even
in its worst forms, is angelic innocence.
Shall we grant their request2 That is
the question which we are about to de-.
eide. Christian women of Atlanta, how
would you have US vote? You need not
reply, for l know what your answer is.
I knew something of the depth and in.
tensity of your convictions. I know
what you are ready to do and suffer in
this sacred cause. You are ready not
only to petition the men of Atlanta to
BE LOYAL TO THE RIGHT,
but if it would make your petition more
potential, you would get upon your knees
and write it with your own hearts blood.
In the days of the American revolu.
tion Thomas Paine wrote these immortal
words: "These are the times which try
mems souls" No greater blessing could
comet to this community than the crisis
through which she is now passing. In
this whirlwind of agitation men will be
sifted, and we shall know what they are.
The Apostle Paul wrote to the Corintllian
Christians, 1.-THE fire shall try every
mans work, of what sort it is" During
the next twenty days God will baptize
Atlanta in fire. Your men Of wood, hay
and stubble will be consumed, but your
true men will abide the ordeal, and on
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such talking men as they have for one of
our brave, dauntless, God-inspired wo-
men.
am not prepared to go as far as the
French proverb and say that "what a
woman wills God Wills" but will say
that there is no community on earth in
which cause worthy of success has ever
failed to the support Of which woman
brought an undivided mind and heart.
If these wives; mothers and daughters
will be true TO themselves, true to their
native instinct, true to those divine con-
victions which lie in the great deep OF
every yirtuous woman's heart, as sure as
righteous God reigns, in Heaven and
administers his government over the
world, the sun of November 25th will go
down upon Atlanta redeemed.
This is the Lords day, and I feel sure
that we are gathered here in the interest
of the Lords work. The very founda.
ton of our blessed Christianity is moral
ity, and the question before US is great
moral question. 1t is one which touches
the very narrow of right and wrong, and
any religion which ignores such a==ques
ton is not worth having. ! Z
Any pulpit that is afraid to discuss il
is not worthy of the respect Of: brave and
honest men. Is it not marvellous how
zealous these Christian men have become
all at once for the purity and sauctity ol
the pulpit? They are not too pious to
bribe poor negro to register three times
a day. They are not too pious to keeE
their backdoors open on Sunday and sci
| liquor in violation of the laws of Goe
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and arms and gradually eat them away;
face becomes less human and finally
Names the appearance of q Wild animal
without any resemblance to humanity.
The two Misses Royen, girls of nineteen
and twenty-five, who had been fair and
pretty, looked like women of over one
hundred, haggard, hairless and toothless,
their faces a livid bronze and covered
with ulcers. In the latter stages of the
disease the victim is absolutely helpless
with only thetrunk left behind, to finally
die of complete exhaustion. During
these stages the odor emitted, distinctive
ofleprosy, is so oppressive that one can
with difficulty remain in the same room
with the leper.
Knowing of the nature of this disease,
and doubtful whether it is contagious or
not, it is not to be wondered at that the
people living in these districts where it
prevails should demand some protection
some time ago The board Of health was
called in by the police jury of Lafourche
to look into the prevalence of leprosy in
that parish, and DR.. Jones, the president,
himself made the investigation. The
complaint made was far more serious
one than that from st. Martinsville, for
the people living in the same ward as the
lepers protested against the latter sending
their children to the public schools where
they were thrown into close intercourse
with the children of healthy parents.
This leper settlement is in The lower
portion of the parish, on both sides of
Bayou Lafourche. 1t is low, swampy
country, thinly settled, far out of the line
of travel, and seldom visited by any one.
Here the leperslive almost to themselves,
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

David Lubin has gone East, TO be absent
six weeks or two months.
Lieutenant Governor Davis, of Nevada,
passed through yesterday going to San
Francisco.
Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Crocker, who had
been spending the week in Sacramento, re-
turned to the Bay yesterday.
Arrivals at the Capital Hotel yesterday
T. w. Smith, New York Henry Vaughan,
Hereford, Eng; J. R. Burlington, Miss
Burlington, Pentz, CAL; Frank Chase,
Truckee; ?. Trambley, Delta; John Gale,
Marysville; VIM. Hood, Red Bluff t. R.
Stephens, Placerville George Myers, Co
Iona.
Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hotel yes
terday c. d. Mitchell, Chattanooga, Tenn;
Thomas Brien, Helena, NJ. T.; H. How
ell, San Francisco; L. w. Buck, Vacaville;
w. Porter, Chicago; Henry Cowell, San
Francisco; H. Gladding, Lincoln: D. Mil
Ter, NJ. Brusse, Geo. Rosenshine, Oh. Sichel,
San Francisco; S. Warchassan, Butte City,
NJ. T.; D. Kay and wife. Ogden, Utah; J.
D. Wilson, Texas; Mrs. Raymond, San
Francisco.
A party Of Eastern friends consisting of
Mr.. and Mrs. J. K. Armsby, Mrs. Wicker
and Miss Dwyer, of Chicago, and G. A.
Newhall, of San Francisco, have been visit
ing with the family of ]. P. Whitney, of
Rocklin, and left for the East last evening.
Mr.. Armsby is the most prominent dealer
in California produce at the East, and Mrs.
Wicker is wife of the General Traffic Man
ager of the Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad. The entire party were delighted
with California, and to continue the pleas
ant impressions, Mr. Whitney yesterday
sent to the Bell Conservatory in this city
and procured elaborate and beautiful floral
decorations for the party's special car
which bore them eastward